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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Recap of Mobile Monday Boston’s Events in 2013

Recap of Mobile Monday Boston’s Events in 2013

Time sure does fly when you’re having fun and 2013 was no
exception! MobileMondayBoston
had a great year hosting many events in different fields of the mobile industry,
as well as, introduce up and coming companies in mobile. Without our amazing
sponsors & co-hosts, featured
companies, great volunteer crew of MobileMonday Boston and of course, our remarkable
attendees, this past year would not have been the success that it was, so we
thank all of you!! 2014 is only going to get better with time, so we hope that
you’ll join us, via a sponsor, a startup company or as an attendee, business cards
in tow, ready to network- your Mondays may not be a dull as they used to be!

In case you missed any of the events last year, (myself,
guilty as charged), below is a recap of all the sponsors, featured companies
and startups that were apart of 2013. (Bloggers note: my apologies if I missed
any companies, I promise to get everyone next year!)

Adobe – World renowned company that specializes in the creation
and development of multimedia and creative software products, most famously the
Adobe Creative Suite.

Apperian- An ‘all-in-the-box’ app solutions company, Apperian
provides organizations with securing, managing and tracking how apps are used
and stored. They offer an ‘enterprise app store’ for distributing 3rd party and
custom made app which can be pushed to any devices that are attached to the
store.

Ask Beatrice - Ask Beatrice is a parking ‘widget’ located on a
business’ website to help motorists find parking within walking distance to the
particular business and help to avoid costly parking tickets.

Athena Health- Cloud-based medical service that caters to over
43,000 medical providers on their network that can organize and review their
entire electronic medical records, effectively bill services correctly that
eases administrative burdens and boost collections, and with
athenaCommunicator, physicians and patients are able to have an active role in
managing their own healthcare and stay connected via a web portal.

Bon’App – Great nutritional app
that allows you to find out what’s in you food in a language you can finally
understand, (Sugar, Calories, Bad Fat, etc.). Simply put in a type of food or
brand of food and Bon App will find it and let you know how healthy…or
unhealthy… your meal/snack will be. You can even register though the app
(free!) for even more insight on you daily food intake.

Boston Human Capital - Located in Woburn, MA, Boston Human
Capital partners with businesses to help solve hiring needs by leveraging staff
referrals and extensive candidate networks to find the best-fit people to
strengthen your team.

Canary - Calendar app that lets you manage/edit/schedule all of
your appointments and events from Google & Facebook calendars all in one
convenient place.

Cannonball– Their
tag lines is “Fall in love with email again” and that just might happen if you
try their email organizing app. The concept is simple; the app automatically
organizes your email separating important messages from coupons and spam mail.
The app is great for a small business as you can easily navigate important
messages from a prospective client and a coupon for $5 off your $100 order.

CoachUp – CoachUp is an app that lets you find personal coaches
in your area to train and practice with on any particular sport.

Codename Cygnus – An interactive game app where you are the main character by
using speech recognition to cast you as a secret agent hero. Use your voice to
operate the game to accomplish missions and objectives and listen as the drama
unfolds as other characters react to your every decision.

CO Everywhere – Social Media App that lets you find out what’s
happening in one particular area via
social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook & Instagram, conveniently
organized on one app.

Cogniance - Full service software and design consultancy that
work with venture-backed startups, corporate innovation labs and venture
capital firms in the world’s technology hubs. Their services include ideation,
specification; use case development, design, architecture, coding, test,
deployment and data center management.

Cubbyhole – Have a lot of extra space in your home? Need a
place to store your stuff for a day? This app connects people with self-storage
needs with people nearby who have the extra space, (and don’t mind making a few
extra dollars on the side).

CustomMade – Online
marketplace that connects buyers who want one of-a-kind creations, from
furniture to jewelry, with passionate and professional designers/creators of
those specific goods.

District Hall- Located on Marina
Park Drive, the heart of the Innovation District, District Hall caters to the
innovation community to network and exchange design ideas. District Hall also
includes meeting hall space for larger conferences, ‘pods’- smaller spaces dedicated
to classrooms and seminars that can also be used for technology labs and
experimental retail & galleries.

EdTrips – Web platform that allows education organizers and
teacher create and manage school/education field trips from the museum in your
city to a museum in another country.

Embarcadero - Providing the industry’s broadest and deepest set
of software tools for developers, DBAs, and architects, Embarcadero enables
customers to work more efficiently with the industry’s major database
platforms, operating systems, frameworks, and programming languages which
enable customers to design, build, and run their databases and applications in
the environments they choose - free from the constraints, costs, and learning
curves associated with multiple platform-specific tools.

Favecast– Social
app that allows users to create short videos (think Vine or Instagram) about
cool places discovered and share with friends and others.

FeedHenry – “Where Cloud Meets Mobile” – FeedHenry is a
responsive cloud based mobile platform that gives companies the ability to
design and customize apps and deploy to any cloud management system.

Fiksu – Mobile app marketing company that works with companies
in providing top marketing for their apps by strategizing and planning complete
campaigns, including identifying media sources that can deliver the best
return, campaign execution throughout the app marketing lifecycle with
extensive feedback and reports and analyze opportunities on new marketing to
help capitalize on immediate market opportunities.

good2gether - Company that uses
smartphones to connect businesses that ‘do good’ to consumers who care about
the causes that they both support.

HeyWire - App that provides free texting for businesses,
combining SMS and Twitter, send and receive messages across smartphones,
tablets and the web.

HireMobile - HireMobile is a mobile
development company assisting clients to expand by developing successful apps
on various mobile and web platforms. Some of HireMobile’s strengths include;
development of an app/software/system/website, Social Networking, Games &
complex graphics/animations & E-commerce set-up.

HubEngage - Created by the folks from Mobinett, HubEngage is a
social app that allows users to ‘check in’ participating venues and use their
app in the same way a loyalty card to redeem offers and earn points for every
visit.

Jumptap (millennial media) - As
the leading independent audience platform in digital advertising, millennial
media has focused on delivering innovation and thought leadership in mobile
advertising since 2006 by emphasizing on building a mobile foundation, the
deliver best-in-class solutions for each business they represent.

Marlin Mobile – Company creator of “Speedier”, a free app that
allows you to measure website speeds on mobile devices, as well as, divulges in
detailed information on page load speed, HTTP requests, page weight and a chart
showing load time for each page element.

MIT Enterprise Forum – Volunteer
driven community that inspires innovation through founder successes, educate
entrepreneurs and company founders on how to form and grow promising startups,
create communities build and strengthen a market sector’s ecosystem and connect
entrepreneurs with the right resources of MIT.

MITX – Premier Internet business and marketing association in
New England dedicated to creating opportunities between businesses and
individuals to network, grow and succeed. MITX creates these opportunities
through providing networking opportunities for professionals to meet and advancing
the industry through well-publicized awards shows, research, and government
relations.

Mobee - An app that allows users to be mystery shoppers at
participating venues and are rewarded the more they shop/dine.

MobiHealthNews – Online news publisher that is the leading
provider of news, commentary, online events and research for the global mobile
health community. MobiHealthNews works continuously to deliver some of the best
and most insightful digital health publications, which include a collection of
paid content reports, including: mObesity, The Coming Medical Tablet War,
Consumer Health Apps and more.

Mobile First Software- Consulting
Company providing companies with mobile strategy and tools to execute
strategies from mobile software development, marketing or analytical services.

Mobiquity - With locations around the world, Mobiquity is an
innovative firm that simplifies mobile for hundreds of companies. They push the
envelope of innovation to deliver the right solution to address business
challenges or surface business opportunities by designing, building, deploying
and managing mobile solutions that work for your business.

nanigans
– Performance marketing platform that measures, predicts and optimizes ad spend
for lifetime value across social and mobile by harnessing the power of
predictive lifetime value to inform more intelligent and efficient media
buying.

Neumitra – Tech Company that develops connected technology, via
smart-wear (smart watch), or through a network by a tablet or phone, and helps address
the effects of stress on brain health and performance.

NeuroCrunch – Although still in development, Big Hippo is the
first app created by NeruoCrunch that will allow you to instantly recall and
remember personal information of people you interact with by way of voice
recognition technology.

Ovia Pregnancy –Whether you’re a
first time mom or have multiple children, this is a great product for anyone
expecting. Created by Ovuline, Ovia is a pregnancy mobile and web app that can
help track your pregnancy from conception to birth. The app can give you
analysis and feedback of your pregnancy, as well as, show your baby’s real-time
development.

Playrific– Mobile
company that creates apps for a younger audience, as well as, work with other
business partners an alternative way to using a mobile platform to create and
develop apps for kids.

PreApps – Website dedicated to getting the word out on new apps
to users and the marketplace prior to release.

QMedic – Developed by scientists from MIT and step above the “I’ve fallen and I can’t
get up” device, QMedic is a wearable
sensing bracelet that monitors physical activity, sleep, and falls in the home,
and sends real-time text and mobile alerts to caregivers to identify abnormal
behaviors and signs of decline.

QuadWrangle – App that allows you to connect with other alumni,
which lead to better connections and organization of reunions & donations.

Quantra – A subsidiary of
Taiwan-based Quantra Computer, INC, the world’s leader in the production of laptop
computers, Quntra Research based in Cambridge has developed an app that allow
an easier use of the creation and sharing of location based services.

Roomzilla – Creative software that
allows a company to easily book, confirm and organize meeting space fast and
efficiently.

Rue La La– Member based online shopping boutique that
specializes in premier-brand private sales for a limited amount of time. Sales
include everything from sought-after women’s clothing/accessories to men’s,
children’s’ and home goods.

RxApps – Health app that allows you, (the patient), to track
symptoms, medication, and routine changes, which then would permit car provides
to make better treatment decisions. The ways RxApps works is the app would send
the patient SMS text messages regarding check in’s, there the information would
be sent into a cloud analytics where care providers could review the
information and send the patient feedback on the results.

Salespod – An efficient web app that allows small and medium
sized businesses manage field activities, coach and provide their team with
relevant information on the spot, all while tracking their team’s activities in
real time.

SessionM – Developed an innovative mobile loyalty and
advertising platform that connects consumers with mobile content and advertising
in fun and rewarding new ways.

Sharalike– An easy
to use app that allows you to capture all of life great moments and
effortlessly create slideshows and movies, share with one person or everyone
you know and organize and store everything in one place.

Skimbox – A wicked smart app that organizes email for busy
people on the go by creating one box for important email you need to view and
another for all other email that can wait.

SkyHook Wireless- SkyHook Wireless, located right in the
Innovation District, is the brainchild of a software-only location system based
on Wi-Fi positioning, GPS & cell tower triangulation. Using the millions of
Wi-Fi access points throughout populated areas, SkyHook’s technology is the
fastest, most accurate and most reliable location system on the market.
SkyHook’s technology not only uses GPS for outdoor locations, they can also use
indoor Wayfinding, as well.

Snaptiva – An interactive personal
style app that allows consumers to snap a picture of anything with a specific
color, search thought millions of products and find products that match their
item’s color, such as finding shoes to match a bag.

Sold. – Service app that took over the burden of selling by
adding a few photos and a description, the pricing calculator determines the
perfect price for the item. From there the app handles the selling, the
shipping, and the payment in one convenient place.

SoundFest– A revolutionary app dubbed “RealClarity”, this app
helps people who have difficulty understanding speech in noisy situations,
clarifies voices and other sounds people want to hear, while filtering out
distracting noise.

The Tap Lab – Creator of Tiny Tycoon, the first location-based
tycoon game on the App Store that turns real life into an interactive game
board consisting of everyday people and places to compete with and take over
your favorite real world places.

THE MEME - A mobile phone app that creates ‘Organic
Parking’; a transaction system of exchanging information for swapping car
parking spots throughout the city of Boston and surrounding areas for a
fraction of the cost.

Thyme Labs – in production software company that is focused on
time management tools and personal data analytics.

Timebre – A cool new app available for Apple & Android,
Timbre is a free location-based service app that allows you to find concert
venues in your area to discover live music and concerts.

Tocobox Inc. – Startup Company that
is developing “Mailki”, an easy to use email system for children ages 6-12 that
is also monitored by parental controls.

Unbound Commerce – Developing a new
concept for large retailers and brands, Unbound Commerce created a new touch
screen technology that bridges the gap between retailer and consumer online and
offline.

Verivo – Based in Waltham, MA, Verivo specializes in creating
enterprise software which has been used to assist in the creation and
development of centrally built, deployed, managed and updated mobile
applications simultaneously and securely across multiple devices.

vFrame – Creating a patent pending product, ‘virtual reality
frames’ connect to your smartphone and from there you can play video games in a
360° view.

WinterWyman– A
leading recruitment firm headquartered in the Northeast for more than 40 years,
WinterWyman has helped thousands of companies, from Fortune 500 companies to
start-ups – identify, attract and recruit talented professionals.

Zmags – Interactive online and digital magazine type publishing
company created for companies who want to offer their customers constant brand
and business experiences across all digital platforms.